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Jason Jay
Hear name pronounced.Senior Lecturer, Sustainability
Jason Jay, PhD, is the Director of the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative and a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His teaching, research, and community-building help people navigate the tensions that arise as we simultaneously…
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Namrata Kala
Associate Professor, Applied Economics
Namrata Kala is an Associate Professor in Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is an economist with research interests in environmental and development economics. Her current research projects include studying how firms and…
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Christopher Knittel
Associate Dean for Climate and Sustainability
Christopher Knittel is the Associate Dean for Climate and Sustainability, the George P. Shultz Professor and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to MIT Sloan, Knittel taught at the University of California,…
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Robert S. Pindyck
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd Professor in Finance and Economics
Robert Pindyck is the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd. Professor in Finance and Economics and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Pindyck’s most recent research focuses on economic policies related to rare disasters,…
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Gita R. Rao
Senior Lecturer, Finance
Gita Rao is a Senior Lecturer in Finance, and Associate Faculty Director of the Master of Finance program at the MIT Sloan School of Management.She joined the MIT Sloan finance faculty with over two decades of experience in global investing, asset…
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John D. Sterman
Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management
John D. Sterman is the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Professor in the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. He is also the Director of the MIT System Dynamics Group and the MIT Sloan…
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Catherine Wolfram
William Barton Rogers Professor in Energy
Catherine Wolfram is the William Barton Rogers Professor in Energy and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She previously served as the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of…
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Y. Karen Zheng
George M. Bunker Associate Professor
Yanchong (Karen) Zheng is the George M. Bunker Professor of Management and an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research focuses on two general topics: (I) the design of incentives, technologies,…
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"Climate Policy Reform Options in 2025."
Bistline, John, Kimberly A. Clausing, Neil Mehrotra, James H. Stock, and Catherine Wolfram. Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy. Forthcoming. NBER Working Paper 32168.
"Environmental Sustainability in Cardiovascular Practice: Current Challenges and Future Directions."
Rajagopalan, Sanjay, Scott McAlister, Jason Jay et al. Nature Reviews Cardiology. Forthcoming.
"Improving Farmers’ Income on Online Agri-Platforms: Evidence from the Field."
Retsef Levi, Manoj Rajan, Somya Singhvi, and Y. Karen Zheng. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. Forthcoming.
"Nonlinear Conjugate Gradient Methods: Worst-case Convergence Rates via Computer-assisted Analyses."
Das Gupta, Shuvomoy, Robert M. Freund, Andy Sun, and Adrien Taylor. Mathematical Programming. Forthcoming. arXiv Preprint.
"Using Machine Learning to Target Treatment: The Case of Household Energy Use."
Knittel, Christopher R., and Samuel Stolper. The Economic Journal. Forthcoming. NBER Working Paper.
"Money (Not) to Burn: Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning."
Jack, Kelsey, Seema Jayachandran, Namrata Kala, and Rohini Pande. AER: Insights Vol. 7, No. 1 (2025): 39-55. NBER Preprint. MIT Climate Portal.
"The Supply of Forest-Based Co2 Removal."
Topic: Climate Change
Franklin Jr., Sergio L. and Robert S. Pindyck, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7239-25. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, January 2025.
Keywords: Economics, Forestation, Land Opportunity Cost, Feasible Forestation, CO2 Emissions, CO2 Removal, Net Emissions Amazon Rainforest, Atlantic Forest
"Supporting the ‘Systems Turn’ in Family Office Investing."
Jay, Jason and Britta Gruenig. FFI Practitioner, January 8, 2025.
"Getting Strategic about Sustainability."
Jay, Jason, Kate Isaacs, and Hong Linh Nguyen. Harvard Business Review, January 2025.
"Mechanizing Agriculture."
Caunedo, Julieta, and Namrata Kala, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6549-21. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, November 2024.
Keywords: Mechanization, Productivity, Span of Control, Contracting Frictions
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Despite Trump’s Fossil Fuel Embrace, Some Moves Rankle Industry
“Firms do not like economic uncertainty,” Christopher Knittel, MIT Sloan Professor of Applied Economics and Faculty Director of the MIT Climate Policy Center, explained in this article in The Hill.
Is the Clean Energy Economy Doomed?
The U.S. is at risk of falling behind in a world economy that is decarbonizing, explains MIT Sloan's Christopher Knittel in an interview on Marketplace.
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